Kemps nine daies wonder: performed in a daunce from London to Norwich / With an introduction and notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce.

  • Kemp, William, active 1600.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Kemps nine daies wonder: performed in a daunce from London to Norwich / With an introduction and notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-twang ; Wherein John Taylor hath Satyrically suted seuen hundred and fifty of his bad debtors, that will not pay him for his returne of his tourney from Scotland. Taylor the Water-poet’s Workes, 1630, p. 36. P. 7, 1. 26, bels..|—‘* The number of bells round each leg of the morris-dancers amounted from twenty to forty. They had various appellations, as the fore-bell, the second bell, the treble, the tenor, the base, and the double-bell. Sometimes they used trebles only ; but these refinements were of later times. The bells were occasion- ally jingled by the hands, or placed on the arms or wrists of the parties.”—Douce’s Illust. of Shakespeare, ii. 475. The same writer mentions that in the time of Henry the Eighth the Morris-dancers had ‘ garters to which bells were attached,” 473; 1.26, the olde fashion, with napking on her armes.|—‘* The hand- kerchiefs, or napkins, as they are sometimes called, were held in the hand, or tied to the shoulders.” Douce, ubi supra, 475. P, 8, 1. 8, The hobby-horse quite forgotten.|\— When the present tract was written, the Puritans, by their preachings and invectives, had succeeded in banishing this prominent personage from the Morris- dance, as an impious and pagan superstition. The expression in our text seems to have been almost proverbial; besides the well- known line cited in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 2, (and in his Love’s Labour s Lost, Act iii, sc. 1.) ‘¢ For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot,’’ parallel passages are to be found in various other early dramas. As the admirable scene in Sir Walter Scott’s Abbot, I. ch. xiv. (Wav. Novels, xx.) must be familiar to every reader, a description of the hobby-horse is unnecessary. l. 23, plash.|—pool. P. 10, l. 15, blee.|—complexion, countenance. 1. 27, hey de gay.|\—See note, p. 26. P. 11, 1. 25, the Lord Chiefe Justice.]—Sir John Popham: he was appointed Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1592. P. 12,1. 13, Sir Edwin Rich.]—Third son of Robert Lord Rich,